Number crunching before the NHL trade deadline

2012 NHL trade deadline by the numbers

Monday is the day when everything happens, at least according to every commercial on TSN and Sportsnet. Breakfast, lunch and possibly dinner in front of the television, if all goes well for the networks. In advance, we dug through the numbers at everyone’s favourite non-partisan hockey resource, CapGeek.com, to come up with some interesting numbers for Monday and beyond.

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THREE WITH A MONEY CRUNCH
These teams can’t add at the deadline without subtracting salaries from the roster. Without shedding salary, these teams have cap room available to add a player with an annual contract worth (all figures in US dollars):

FIVE FEARING THE IDES OF MARCH
These teams have a bill coming due. CapGeek has these five projected to overshoot the salary cap and will be the five most likely to dress two brooms and a mop in the final weeks of the season.